Fix: sysmon falls back to ctrace when branch=True (issue #2172)#2175
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) When using branch coverage on Python 3.14+, sysmon ends up being slower than ctrace. This is because sysmon's big advantage is disabling events after the first time a line is seen. But for branch coverage it cannot do that, since the same line can be reached from many different places in the code. So it keeps firing a Python callback on every single execution, which is actually slower than ctrace's C-level trace function. Fix: when branch=True and the user has not explicitly chosen a core, quietly fall back to ctrace instead. If you explicitly set COVERAGE_CORE=sysmon you still get sysmon. This only affects the default behavior.
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Fixes #2172
When using branch coverage on Python 3.14+, sysmon ends up being slower than ctrace. This is because sysmon's big advantage is disabling events after the first time a line is seen. But for branch coverage it cannot do that, since the same line can be reached from many different places in the code. So it keeps firing a Python callback on every single execution, which is actually slower than ctrace's C-level trace function.
Fix: when branch=True and the user has not explicitly chosen a core, quietly fall back to ctrace instead. If you explicitly set COVERAGE_CORE=sysmon you still get sysmon. This only affects the default behavior.